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On the physical significance of black hole quasinormal mode spectra instability

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arxiv 2404.01374 v1 pith:HGK3P5PY submitted 2024-04-01 gr-qc

Vitor Cardoso , Shilpa Kastha , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo This is my paper
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It has been shown, via specific examples and a pseudospectrum analysis, that the black hole quasinormal spectra are unstable. The implication of such a result for gravitational-wave physics and of our understanding of black holes is, still, unclear. The purpose of this work is twofold: (i) we show that some of the setups leading to instabilities are unphysical and triggered by exotic matter or extreme spacetimes; (ii) nevertheless, we also show simple examples of compelling physical scenarios leading to spectral instabilities. Our results highlight the importance of understanding the overtone content of time-domain waveforms, and their detectability.

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